Castle Season 5, Episode 3: Secret’s Safe with Me

When a woman is found brutally murdered with a mysterious message written in her own blood, the team searches for what she could have meant by “LIE”. And as they try to find her next of kin, only to find that he too is recently deceased. And when they come across a storage unit up for auction that belonged to the deceased brother, Castle will have to pony up the cash to keep their evidence from slipping through their fingers.

When they find that the deceased brother’s employer was recently burgled, it seems that somewhere in the storage unit Castle just purchased there’s a four million dollar bracelet hidden away. With their mounds of loot back at the precinct, Castle stumbles on the way to befriend Captain Gates, giving her a small doll – a collectable she’s been in search of for years. But when their search comes up empty, Castle will have to sacrifice his new found friendship with the icy Captain in order to solve the case.

My Thoughts:

The second Castle gave her the doll, I knew whatever they were looking for was inside it. There was no way the writers were going to let him off that easy, Gate’s hating Castle is a road bump in every episode. It would make things a little too easy for them to be on the same side.

Castle’s relationship with Alexis is one of my most favorite things about the series, so every glimpse we get of them makes me happy. In this episode, with her leaving for college, I think you do get a bit of a look at the codependent nature of their relationship. I’m not saying it isn’t normal to miss your parents, but I do feel the relationship they have is a bit more connected than most.  And checking under her dorm bed for monsters is just too adorable.

I find it interesting that there’s not even a sliver of weirdness between Javier and Ryan… after all, they should have some brief moments of awkwardness as they just got back together. I would have liked to see a little bit of that in the episode.

I appreciate how this episode didn’t have any moments with Caskett alone. There’s something very real about the relationship and how they’re hiding it and they aren’t going to always have moments alone, they aren’t always going to get to spend the evenings together, and until they come out, they won’t be able to. And so I enjoy that the way they’re hiding their relationship comes over very real.